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on Saturday June 15 2019, @08:51PM
from the embrace,-extend-er,-no,-that's-the-other-one dept.
from the embrace,-extend-er,-no,-that's-the-other-one dept.
Google's cloud is getting very big, but it plans on getting bigger.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced Thursday that it plans to buy Looker, a business-intelligence and big-data analytics company, for $2.6 billion in cash.
[...] The acquisition builds on an existing four-year-old partnership between the companies, which already share more than 350 joint customers like Buzzfeed, Hearst, Sunrun and Yahoo, Google said in a news release,
Also reported at:
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/google-to-acquire-analytics-startup-looker-for-2-6-billion/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/06/07/4-reasons-google-bought-looker/#5ae933486dcd
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:52PM
the future is so bright...wait, it's cloudy out i can't see a damn thing.